Effective Aid: How Democracy Allows Development Aid to Improve the Quality of Life

Kosack, Stephen

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(02)00177-8

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“…Kosack (2003) found that, contingent on the extent of democracy in recipient countries, aid was positively associated with the level of wellbeing among countries as measured by the Human Development Index. A related literature looks at the impact of aid on various categories of public expenditure and revenue; health and education expenditures can be important to MDG achievement if the services reach the poor.…”

Section: Aid Effectiveness: a Brief Surveymentioning

confidence: 98%

Development assistance and development finance: evidence and global policy agendas

Addison

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McGillivray

2005

J of Intl Development

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Understanding the development effects of official aid is crucial to building a better bridge between research and policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a new narrative. In the light of this narrative, the paper then examines aid trends, focusing on the regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific. The paper then turns to recent discussion of new and innovative sources of development finance and considers how research has influenced the policy debate through a recent UNU-WIDER study for the UN General Assembly. The paper concludes that aid broadly works, that poverty would be higher in the absence of aid, and that the shortfall in aid during the 1990s has, by implication, made it more difficult to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Hence, a considerable catch-up in aid and other development finance flows is now necessary if poverty is to be substantially reduced by 2015.

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Section: Aid Effectiveness: a Brief Surveymentioning

confidence: 98%

Development assistance and development finance: evidence and global policy agendas

Addison

Mavrotas

McGillivray

2005

J of Intl Development

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“…Additionaly, there are several authors that concentrated on negative effects of development aid, e.g. Boone (1996), Kosack (2003), Easterly (2007), Easterly and Pfutze (2008), Mallik (2008).…”

Section: Development Aidmentioning

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The Impact of Development Aid on the International Migrations in the African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c Group of States

Gregl

Logožar

2017

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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“…No campo da relação entre ajuda externa e democracia, Kosack (2003) pesquisa o efeito da ajuda externa na qualidade de vida de habitantes em democracias e autocracias e conclui que a ajuda é mais eficaz quando aplicada em democracias, sugerindo que a ajuda externa devesse centrar fogo na democratização de países não democráticos. Knack (2004), porém, produz análise multivariada do impacto da ajuda sobre a democratização em uma grande amostra de países beneficiários, durante o período 1975-2000, e não encontra evidências de que a ajuda externa seja capaz de promover democracia.…”

Section: A Discussão Sobre O Impacto Da Ajuda Externa Nos Países Destunclassified

Cooperação Internacional, Desenvolvimento Ultramar, Assistência Estrangeira: breve revisão histórica e bibliográfica sobre a ajuda externa oficial

Tomesani¹

2017

Carta Int. ABRI

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ResumoEste artigo se presta a introduzir o leitor ao conceito, histórico, principais instituições e debates contemporâneos sobre o fenômeno da ajuda externa oficial (foreign aid, em inglês) -que alguns preferem tratar de cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento, ainda que tais termos não sejam exatamente sinônimos, como se verá. A literatura trabalhada sugere que o debate contemporâneo em torno da ajuda externa oficial possa ser reduzido a duas frentes: a frente dos que buscam as motivações para doar e a frente dos que medem o impacto das doações. Chamamos a atenção, ao final deste trabalho, para o fato de que a maior parte da literatura disponível foi escrita por pesquisadores de países que fazem parte da comunidade de doadores, e é esta a literatura que embasa e orienta as ações das agências de cooperação. Há pouco material que analise a ajuda externa sob a ótica dos países receptores e parte do existente é bastante crítica a tal forma de ajuda. Sugere-se a necessidade de desenvolver mais esses tipos de trabalho.Palavras-chave: Ajuda externa, foreign aid, cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento, cooperação bilateral, organismos multilaterais. AbstractThis article aims to introduce the reader to the concept, history, main institutions and contemporary debates around the phenomenon of foreign aid -which some prefer to treat as international cooperation for development, although, as we will see, these terms are not 1 O título deste artigo faz alusão a outros termos comumente utilizados para designar a ajuda externa oficial 2 Doutoranda em Relações Internacionais no IRI/USP. E-mail: anamaura@gmail.com ou anamaura@usp.br Artigo submetido em 17/11/2016 e aprovado em 16/03/2017. 74 Rev. Carta Inter., Belo Horizonte, v. 12, n. 1, 2017, p. 73-100 International Cooperation, Overseas Development, Foreign Assistance [...] exactly synonymous. The literature suggests that the contemporary debate about official foreign aid can be reduced to two fronts: the front of those who seek the motivations for donating and the front of those who measure the impact of donations. In this text, we also draw attention to the fact that the majority of literature that is accessible is not only in English, but has been written by researchers from countries belonging to the community of donors. Furthermore, that it is this literature which underlies and guides the action of cooperative agencies. There is little material that analyses external aid from the perspective of the receiving countries, and the few existing works are generally very critical concerning this type of aid. We suggest the need to develop such research.

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Effective Aid: How Democracy Allows Development Aid to Improve the Quality of Life

Cited by 262 publications

References 30 publications

Development assistance and development finance: evidence and global policy agendas

Development assistance and development finance: evidence and global policy agendas

The Impact of Development Aid on the International Migrations in the African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c Group of States

Cooperação Internacional, Desenvolvimento Ultramar, Assistência Estrangeira: breve revisão histórica e bibliográfica sobre a ajuda externa oficial

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